The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I always take the audience into account.
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